{"id":1853311,"date":"2023-02-19T15:05:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T20:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1853311"},"modified":"2023-02-19T15:05:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T20:05:26","slug":"austin-police-officer-hurt-in-street-racing-takeover-footage-shows-mob-swarm-police-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/austin-police-officer-hurt-in-street-racing-takeover-footage-shows-mob-swarm-police-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Police Officer Hurt In Street Racing Takeover; Footage Shows Mob Swarm Police Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faustin-police-officer-hurt-in-street-racing-takeover-footage-shows-mob-swarm-police-car%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1853311&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police<\/a> In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas<\/a>One officer sustained injuries in connection with a series of incidents. &#8220;street racing incidents&#8221; Saturday night was the last day of business in the state capital.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Austin Police Department stated that several police cars were damaged and others injured in the riotous behavior.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;APD is committed to stopping this conduct,&#8221; The department stated this in a tweet. &#8220;Lawbreaking in this manner will result in enforcement and arrest. Our community&#8217;s safety is the #1 priority for APD.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8UPDATE: One APD officer was injured in street racing in Austin last night and several police cars were damaged. <br \/>This conduct will be stopped by the APD. These acts of lawbreaking can lead to arrest and enforcement. APD is committed to the safety of our community.\ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gp7oiCz30S\">https:\/\/t.co\/Gp7oiCz30S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Austin Police Department (@Austin_Police) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Austin_Police\/status\/1627362662286864384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police did not immediately release any details on the identity of the officer or the severity of his or her injuries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/news\/local\/austin-street-racing-incidents\/269-75a69613-c3b2-4872-be30-30839cc48f25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video footage posted to social media<\/a> shows cars wildly spinning in circles and\u00a0large crowds confronting law enforcement and even launching what appears to be fireworks at police vehicles.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Austin police confirm one officer was hurt and multiple cars damaged by a large crowd involved in several racing incidents late Saturday.<br \/>Travis County also had 2 patrol cars damaged. <br \/>Social media posts show this was a large, coordinated event.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2JULoAUwWr\">pic.twitter.com\/2JULoAUwWr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tony Plohetski (@tplohetski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tplohetski\/status\/1627363991033970691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Austin police said in an overnight tweet that they were investigating a number of &#8220;street racing incidents&#8221; across Austin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The department wants to reiterate this behavior is reckless &#038; poses significant risks and dangers to the public,&#8221; Austin police said. &#8220;APD remains committed to enforcing the law and keeping our community safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Austin, Texas, said one officer was injured in connection to a number of \u201cstreet racing incidents\u201d across the state capital Saturday night. The Austin Police Department announced on Sunday that the riotous behavior resulted in several police cars being damaged in addition to the injury. \u201cAPD is committed to stopping this conduct,\u201d the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1853314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[9230,8171,5254,4940,15146,4707,3967,8370,4355,19092,7018],"class_list":["post-1853311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-austin","tag-car","tag-footage","tag-hurt","tag-mob","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-racing","tag-street","tag-swarm","tag-takeover"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1853311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1853314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1853311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1853311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}